Newspaper claims footballer won $100m at poker

The Daily Star wrote that the Danish midfielder had won over $100 million taking part in poker since retiring from soccer and shifting to the United States. 

At this stage it will be remiss of us to level out that the Daily Star within the UK isn’t precisely a Pulitzer successful publication. Also, mainstream media are likely to get turnover and revenue gravely blended up in these tales. 

There are, nevertheless, rumours abound in poker that among the largest video games and due to this fact largest winners in poker are from the personal video games loved by the wealthy and well-known the place most professionals usually are not allowed. Indeed, there may be credible proof to counsel that Rick Salomon and Tobey Maguire are two of the largest winners in poker historical past from such video games. 

The article additionally claims that Gravesen misplaced $54 million in a single heads-up session in Vegas. That really has some secondary proof to be discovered, as 5 years in the past any person made the same claim on 2+2. They additionally stated Gravesen was up $80 million at the time. 

So it appears clear that Gravesen performs excessive stakes video games and probably has been a winner in them. However, it’s most likely higher to attend for some revered gamers within the business to substantiate he’s the true deal earlier than we pay an excessive amount of consideration to the $100 million winner claims. 

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Barry Carter

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy and PKO Poker Strategy